Netanyahu Delivers Rare Public Rebuke to U.S. President Over Proposal to Restart Peace Talks
By JAY SOLOMON And CAROL E. LEE
WSJ
WASHINGTON—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a rare public rebuke of President Barack Obama at the White House, declaring that Israel would never accept the terms of his proposal to resume peace talks with the Palestinians.
Mr. Netanyahu appeared to lecture Mr. Obama following their nearly two-hour meeting Friday—exposing tensions between leaders over Mideast policy that are usually kept out of the public eye.
That followed some unsuccessful behind-the-scenes wrangling by Israeli officials to convince Mr. Obama to abandon plans to urge, in a major speech Thursday, that peace negotiations resume based on Israel's borders before it gained new territory in the 1967 Six Day War.
Before cameras and reporters in the Oval Office Friday afternoon, Mr. Netanyahu turned to face the president while telling him Israel "cannot go back to the 1967 lines" that are "indefensible."
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When I hear of those in the Jewish community who support Obama, while knowing his stance on this issue just boggles my mind. I’m also very upset and shocked that Hillary Clinton, who was always pro-Israel sat there in support of Obama when he gave this speech. who think they can negotiate with terrorists?
I think the General problem is that the Media in America is self censured when it comes to reporting some realities of the situation in Israel. The rest of the world is overwhelmi¬ngly in support of the Palestinians and their right. In the last few years Israel reputation has drasticall¬y fallen from facing passports using their allies’ technology to steal identities to all sorts of damaging acts. The media in the US will never report these things. The expulsion of Israeli diplomats from England etc. Their abuse of Palestinians is far more reported in the rest of the world than in the US. So things are only getting tougher and Israel is getting isolated.
Jews are the wealthiest group of minorities in the United States waving money and power adjustable out of proportion to their relative size of the population.Pres. Obama did not need a penny of donations from American Jews to get re-elected. Jews represent only 1.7% of the population of the United States, half of whom are too young to vote.thanks for sharing this information.
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